Bill Text: IL SB0991 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning fees paid by credit card.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-08-15 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB0991 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB0991-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 SB0991 Introduced 2/6/2009, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
705 ILCS 105/27.3b from Ch. 25, par. 27.3b
Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning fees paid by credit card.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning courts.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Clerks of Courts Act is amended by changing
Section 27.3b as follows:
(705 ILCS 105/27.3b) (from Ch. 25, par. 27.3b)
Sec. 27.3b. The The clerk of court may accept payment of
fines, penalties, or costs by credit card or debit card
approved by the clerk from an offender who has been convicted
of or placed on court supervision for a traffic offense, petty
offense, ordinance offense, or misdemeanor or who has been
convicted of a felony offense. The clerk of the circuit court
may accept credit card payments over the Internet for fines,
penalties, or costs from offenders on voluntary electronic
pleas of guilty in minor traffic and conservation offenses to
satisfy the requirement of written pleas of guilty as provided
in Illinois Supreme Court Rule 529. The clerk of the court may
also accept payment of statutory fees by a credit card or debit
card. The clerk of the court may also accept the credit card or
debit card for the cash deposit of bail bond fees.
The Clerk of the circuit court is authorized to enter into
contracts with credit card or debit card companies approved by
the clerk and to negotiate the payment of convenience and

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administrative fees normally charged by those companies for
allowing the clerk of the circuit court to accept their credit
cards or debit cards in payment as authorized herein. The clerk
of the circuit court is authorized to enter into contracts with
third party fund guarantors, facilitators, and service
providers under which those entities may contract directly with
customers of the clerk of the circuit court and guarantee and
remit the payments to the clerk of the circuit court. Where the
offender pays fines, penalties, or costs by credit card or
debit card or through a third party fund guarantor,
facilitator, or service provider, or anyone paying statutory
fees of the circuit court clerk or the posting of cash bail,
the clerk shall collect a service fee of up to $5 or the amount
charged to the clerk for use of its services by the credit card
or debit card issuer, third party fund guarantor, facilitator,
or service provider. This service fee shall be in addition to
any other fines, penalties, or costs. The clerk of the circuit
court is authorized to negotiate the assessment of convenience
and administrative fees by the third party fund guarantors,
facilitators, and service providers with the revenue earned by
the clerk of the circuit court to be remitted to the county
general revenue fund.
(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)